Problem of Educational System in Tripura

Education is the backbone of society. The weakness in educational system means weakness in society. Tripura is one of the good literate states in the Country. But this is only in headcount. The proper education or standard educational curriculum is absent here. It is very basic in standard in school education of Tripura. It is very surprise to mention that most of the Bachelor or College students don’t know how to fill up and submit an online application or what email id exactly means or what are social networking site or how internet can help them in their education or any other part of life! This is not their fault.
Disequilibrium is happening in Tripura among the school students. Some of the schools belong to I.C.S.E board or C.B.S.E boards are giving national level education in schools where majority are state governments running school where state board’s curriculum is very basic only.
Time is changing, society is changing. Our need, demands are also changing. So it should be properly analyze the curriculum of the school education. Change is inevitable if it is for the good. Our state board feel headache always to change the pattern of education system in Tripura.
It is very odd that if a person fails in Matriculation or higher secondary examination he has to wait for another one year to reappear in the examination where he can be prepared within two months for the re examination. Even if a student get any backlog in any single subject only, he is consider to be not qualified and has to wait for another one year for the re examination! This is very loss for the students, their families as well as government! But school education never thought of that. This is a very important thing to be changed in state board as well as other board of India.
There is not adequate practical education is there in school. Some of the subjects like Physics, Chemistry and Biology are pertaining practical properly in school and rest subjects always neglected for their practical education. There is ‘Work education’ subject is there in school education, but this is the subject where maximum negligence possible is doing in each and every school. No teacher are recruiting specialization on those subjects, this is the basic reason why it is neglecting. Physical education is another subject which is properly taking only some proper area’s school. All the remote area’s schools are neglecting this particular subject where maximum potential is there on this field in every remote area.
Importance of Social service is the matter they never feel in school life. Even in NSS camp they are not teaching the particular importance of social service in our state. They think NSS camp is only for wasting of time. So some vagabond type students only participate on that auspicious program! Maximum science student don’t participate there!
Quality of teachers in school education is also important which is absent in Tripura. School teachers job are offering more or less only on the basis of political channel or needy! Talent is considering very less here. And how talent can be measure, a good educational background may not the only criteria on that issue. And after recruiting there is no such arrangement of special training for the teachers. This is the only job where they get maximum liberty and always neglect their root duty. Some stay busy with extra income like private tuition business or contractor or any other business. They need to satisfy at the time of election only and otherwise no problem. They are also not totally wrong I would say, their salary may be not be sufficient for them.
Moral education and spiritual education is not sufficient in schools which are very important in life. There should incorporate subject content ‘spiritual science’ which would be combination of the moral thought of all religious books like Alkoran, Bible and Gita etcetera. If a person spiritually does not fit or morally is not sound, true service or true patriotism in the country would not come. Rather they become corrupt in their professional work, faithless in their personal life and valueless in their core self.
On the other hand most educated people become burden of the government because their education is not helpful for their profession. There is certain curriculum like arts stream which would make them eligible only for the clerical post or teaching job. Government cannot recruit everybody for government job-this is very true fact. But what else this people can do in their life? They don’t know anything; they become neither seed nor edible. They cannot able to write few lines in English or speak few minute in English where central government organize any examination either Hindi or in English, so their road is almost thorn made there also. They cannot give hammer in land because they have never practice that. So ultimately they run after politics to get a favor for the clerical or teaching job! But may be any political party-how many jobs they could provide? It is not possible to give job everyone. So what can they do? This headache can be avoided if curriculum maker could think at the time of making curriculum from the primary education. Firstly there should be basic science for all up to higher secondary, second practical education should much more emphasized like science practical from primary education, stress on work education, stress on sports and games et cetera. There should also stress on body language, the seeds of self entrepreneurship may be in college education.
Every educated people are the soldier of the country. They have to understand the social responsibility on them and bear this with smile. For this they need a positive attitude in their mind from the very beginning. Then only they will not handshake with our enemy and harm our country.
The happiest thing is that nowadays all these are implementing in our educational system but again sad thing is that the process is so slower that it will take many years to get the fruit of this great effort. The administrator should be much efficient like crisis management efficiency on this issue. This is not any less deplorable crisis than other in our society.
Again the basic mentality of teachers have to improve from syllabus oriented to make to capture oriented. Every teacher has to be trainer. We don’t need teacher now, our situation demanding trainer. We don’t need burocrat but we need delegator. Teachers are the one of the strongest pillar of country; they can actively participate to develop our country as fast as possible. But they are habitually so slow in everything.
Governing body or legislative body also should think about the quality of education is important rather than quantity. It is true quantity is also important but for that we cannot compromise with quality. Gone are the days when we have thought about number rather than quality! Inaugurations are not sufficient, maintenance and improvement is the soul important in this present scenario.
We are lagging behind on the matter of research about education. What type of education should be incorporate to which standard classes et cetera is very important nowadays. Basic structure of an educated people has to be strong. There need much research about syllabus incorporation in the every standard classes. Suppose a class three standard student will not understand the meaning of Gitanjali poem fully because he has not got that level of maturity. Again we have to think about the need of the education. A student graduated from a recognized college and he don’t know how to write an application or how to talk two line words properly with a VIP or don’t have the courage to fill up an online application and go for interview to some other state-this is really not expected. That means education does not serve their demand.
According to Vivekananda purpose of education is for growing up the mental caliber. An educated youth need to have the capability to think about matter of the society and decide the right thing without biasing. Being an educated youth if I cast my vote to some political party on biasing by someone this is really very shame to the education. Same way if I cannot protect my fundamental rights or if I don’t feel the necessity of performing fundamental duties then where my education served myself as well as my country? What is the purpose of education? Even many students don’t know properly their fundamental rights or duty in their life! They just avoid the matter on the excuse that this does not belongs to his subject!
Being educated if I don’t dare to change the society, if I rather want to follow the tradition which had made by some less educated people according to their need in ancient time-it is obviously should not be there. Time has changed so as the need! But these are happening in our society. You should accept your religion according to your need otherwise you must have to change it according to your conscience. I believe every student have to adopt spiritual science which means adopt your religion scientifically. You should Rejects that portion of your religion which is not scientific. Dare to do that. You should have the courage to make a common society which would be incorporating all the scientific (and which is the best for society) matter of every religion in the world. If hundred years ago they dared to create Brahma Samaj then why not now you cannot dare to do this kind of thing! Education should do and can make everything possible for the all-round betterment of our society state country and the world.